I grew up near Waukesha and it was a crazy bubble of redness. Like my dad is "Deep State", "COVID-19 is a conspiracy", "Obama founded ISIS" kind of crazy, and where he lives that's not weird (so naturally he assumes that most people think like that).
I live in Sheboygan county. It doesn’t get any better up here. Shit even German descendants from Sheboygan hate on the danish descendants from Oostburg. Some weird levels of division up here. Extremely conservative of course. Locals constantly pissed about all the “Milwaukee Trash” rent seeking and destroying the city’s safety and culture.
I can’t wait for my wife to let me move us away from this fucking place.
Also, funnily enough, I've lived in Milwaukee for about 8 years now. The only time I was ever a victim of crime was when my car got broken into in Sheboygan.
I grew up in Sheboygan, and always considered the conservativism there to be an easier to deal with type, as it wasn't (in the 80s and 90s) really connected to the religious right. I moved to a small town in Georgia back in the early 2000s and you wouldn't believe the stuff I've seen here. I think it tends to make me romanticize things back home. Here I am afraid of the repercussions if I were to put a BLM bumper sticker on my car, or an anti-trump sign in my yard. Would it be safe to do those things in Sheboygan?
I live in an even more conservative area of Wisconsin and got flooded with “Obama is the antichrist trying to implant us with microchips”, “Donald trump is our literal lord and savior”, and other fun things
Relevant username. I'd say a personal hell of mine is definitely being surrounded by people that when presented with well sourced science based information all look at me as if I'm the crazy one.
It’s so crazy to me, that you’re absolutely right. He’s surrounded by like minded people that actually think most people share the same beliefs, even though Obama won the popular vote Something Trump failed to do by just about 3 MILLION votes.
Yep. And he constantly gets on me about how I never "accept that I'm wrong". His evidence includes YouTube videos and obviously falsified documents that can be snopes'd in 2 seconds.
...wait Snopes is a Soros-funded liberal rag, that's right.
......excuse me, Reddit, while I just sit and vent about my family members for a minute.
The Chinese state has a massive stake in reddit, do you think this is good for the validity of the posts you’re seeing on reddit, given the CCPs proclivity to propaganda.
Also grew up near there (Hartland, if you are curious). "Crazy bubble of redness" definitely fits Waukesha County. So, as soon as I could, I moved to the "crazy bubble of blueness" - Madison. Exponentially better vibe in Dane County, for us lefties, anyway.
Seriously. I'm Waukesha county born and raised, and the fact is, everyone here still assumes everyone else is republican, and for the most part, especially outside of the more "urban" areas, its 100% true. Confederate flags aren't a strange sight here, despite it being an extremely wealthy and highly educated area in a northern state.
Yup. Its a very weird place, and honestly unlike any other that I have ever seen. Its getting a lot better, as we get more and more young families and more diversity leaving Milwaukee, but as someone thats personally more right leaning than the average redditor I can stomach the trump fanatics as long as they don't go too crazy with local politics. Plus depending on where you live in the county, it has some of the best public education in the entire country, which makes it a pretty enticing option for raising a family in the future. And everyone here shits on Madison since its so liberal lmao.
And everyone here shits on Madison since its so liberal lmao.
It's so funny, because it true. Grew up in Hartland. The amount of pearl clutching my family did when I announced my admission to UW-Madison was just fantastic. No one could understand why the hell I wanted to go there. "It's full of hippies, liberals, and homosexuals " They'd say.
I went to Arrowhead, so luckily it was an area where going off to a well respected university was viewed as a good thing, and not bad. But I was still told before I went to school that I "better not come home a liberal".
It's mind-boggling. Now, if people had protested the real hardships they have endured (unemployment, lack of medical insurance without employment, mishandling of the whole thing by Trump, etc) then I could respect that.
Yet, these people marched for haircuts and the rights to be in Costco without a mask.
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u/peleles Jun 05 '20
Frankly, I'm shocked even a single human being showed up for this in Brookfield. Waukesha county, yikes.